More Mini-Camp Photos......DMN

I only managed to play one year before mono took me down for the next two seasons and by senior year I was just too small and too far behind. I love the game, but almost all the kids out there probably know more about actually playing the game then i do, I wouldn't feel right trying to coach them. I do thank you for the advice though, and your insight on most things football, even when I don't agree.

Hell, it's more fun when we don't agree. if you don't think you could coach at the HS level start even lower. Kids always need volunteers. It makes ahuge difference in every kid's life. To this day, my favorite coach was a guy who only knew one thing but told great stories and kept you loose. You can make a difference.

I am positive it was side by side reference drills because just about every team runs them for that purpose and I have been involved in them hundreds of times.

Well, that part's obvious. But I'm curious about how anyone could tell from a picture who was calling the cadence.

I am not saying "perfectly synchronized." I am saying with good or proper mechanics. I doubt many QBs could get rid of the ball as fast as Marino but I would expect soem to drop back faster than he did, etc.

They obviously aren't perfectly synchronized, and Quincy seems to be slightly behind Vinny in the running of the play. Why? We don't know. Maybe they were going on their own cadences, maybe his center didn't snap the ball on time, maybe he bobbled the snap, maybe he was running a different "half-speed" than Vinny, maybe Vinny was going full-speed and Quincy was going half-speed or three-quarter speed. Nobody knows any of that from a picture. And neither do we know that, a split-second after this picture was snapped, Quincy didn't look any different from the way Vinny looks in the picture -- head pointed at the ghost-RB's chest, left foot out, left arm extended, ball higher and turned sideways. He's obviously in the process of sticking out his left arm and picking up and moving his left foot. And I'm guessing they're both going toward the ghost runner.

This is why teams videotape practices instead of having a photographer go around snapping still photos.

Actually, if anyone saw ESPN when they were showing Warner and Manning doing the same type of thing, they were actually WAAAY off from one another. In fact, Manning did a pump fake and then threw the ball, while Warner made no pump fake and threw the ball.

They showed quite a few different reps of these with the coach barking out "Hut!"

I honestly don't think this is any "competitive" thing as far as who looks better getting the job done. It may have to do with mechanics to a point, but if anyone else saw it (on ESPN), it was obvious that they were just working on "out" plays to the WR's.

I guess you would have had to see it to really understand what I am talking about.

Well, that part's obvious. But I'm curious about how anyone could tell from a picture who was calling the cadence.

They obviously aren't perfectly synchronized, and Quincy seems to be slightly behind Vinny in the running of the play. Why? We don't know. Maybe they were going on their own cadences, maybe his center didn't snap the ball on time, maybe he bobbled the snap, maybe he was running a different "half-speed" than Vinny, maybe Vinny was going full-speed and Quincy was going half-speed or three-quarter speed. Nobody knows any of that from a picture. And neither do we know that, a split-second after this picture was snapped, Quincy didn't look any different from the way Vinny looks in the picture -- head pointed at the ghost-RB's chest, left foot out, left arm extended, ball higher and turned sideways. He's obviously in the process of sticking out his left arm and picking up and moving his left foot. And I'm guessing they're both going toward the ghost runner.

This is why teams videotape practices instead of having a photographer go around snapping still photos.

Halleluya! I know you and I don't see eye to eye on a lot of things, Adam, but you hit the nail on the head with this one.

By the way, I saw an old photo of myself opening a door today, but I swear it looks like I was doing the "Macarena", but it can't be true cuz the pic was taken before the "Macarena" dance was created, and I never knew how to do that dance anyway.

but it looks like I was doing the macarena so it MUST of been that I was doing the macarena, right?